The burden of being the full-time starting point guard led him to more minutes and less efficiency for (Jason) Kidd, who admitted before the game the last month was taxing.

“I haven’t guarded the ball and ran the point for some time,’’ Kidd said at the morning shootaround. “[In Dallas], I had J.J. [Barea] or Jason Terry. I initiated the offense, but I didn’t have to guard the ball. This was a throwback for me back to Jersey when I did both.’’

via Marc Berman of the New York Post